. The Saturday evening post. thehabit of drawing checks and pocketing the money. Hethen turned the check over to the ledger clerk, who listedit. But when he came to add up the days business on theadding machine he tampered with that piece of apparatusso that it failed to add the amount of the check. The totalwas then brought down with the amount of the check un-added, so that the amounts always balanced. These twoyoung men managed to continue this type of operation fortwo years and to get about eight thousand dollars. Theyboth went to war and served in France. They were broughtback and mustere
. The Saturday evening post. thehabit of drawing checks and pocketing the money. Hethen turned the check over to the ledger clerk, who listedit. But when he came to add up the days business on theadding machine he tampered with that piece of apparatusso that it failed to add the amount of the check. The totalwas then brought down with the amount of the check un-added, so that the amounts always balanced. These twoyoung men managed to continue this type of operation fortwo years and to get about eight thousand dollars. Theyboth went to war and served in France. They were broughtback and mustered out, expecting every moment to bearrested and jailed. Strangely enough, their shortage hadnot yet been discovered. They sought about for a meansof making restitution, found it and then confessed theirmisdeeds. A young woman who was a filing clerk in a metropolitanbank conceived the idea of opening accounts in variousbanks under assumed names. In her own bank she watched (Continued on Page IS3) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 33.
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